Michael Stern's Imprinted Time opens at UrbanGlass Wednesday, paired with a conversation between Stern and Sydney Cash, the glass artist whose retrospective ran through Issue 09. NYC Resistor runs a permacomputing workshop the same night. I'd start at UrbanGlass. Sunday splits two ways: Denied Access brings art, film, and live painting to a Bushwick storefront for reproductive healthcare access, while fifty vendors set up at Gottscheer Hall for an artist-run makers market. Green-Wood Cemetery runs a trolley tour through its Victorian portrait sculpture Saturday, the same day Greenpoint Gallery opens a solo show from OpenCall winner Madeline Anderson.
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Sam Heckle leads NYC Resistor's free or donation-based workshop on permacomputing, the practice of keeping old hardware running well past its intended lifespan. The session runs as a tutorial followed by a hands-on hack, so it helps to bring an iOS device and its original charger.
Wed Jul 8, 7-9:30p -
Percussionist and sound artist Lesley Mok leads a listening session at e-flux's Bar Laika, the kind of night built around sitting with the sound rather than talking over it.
Wed Jul 8, 7p -
Anderson won Greenpoint Gallery's OpenCall, and this solo show is built from her intuitive process, work made in the moment rather than planned out in advance. I'd go see how that reads on the wall.
Fri Jul 10, 8p -
A guided trolley tour through Green-Wood's Victorian-era portrait sculpture, tracing the carvers behind the cemetery's stone likenesses and the mourning conventions that shaped them.
Sat Jul 11 -
Art, film, and live painting come together at this Bushwick storefront in support of reproductive healthcare access, organized as a benefit rather than a straight gallery show.
Sun Jul 12 -
Tiny Arts Supply fills the Gottscheer Hall beer garden with fifty vendors and interactive art demos for a free-entry market built around actual craft rather than resale.
Sun Jul 12 -
Part of EdFest, a run of Edinburgh Fringe preview performances at Brooklyn Art Haus through the 19th. I'd point comedy and theater people toward this one for the title alone.
Tue Jul 14
Brooklyn Creative Reuse is clearing out its yarn stock at fifty cents a skein
Café Erzulie runs a free jazz night Thursday with the Global Jazz Ensemble, no cover
Refuge relaunches Justin Cudmore's Balance party Friday with Boris headlining
Paula Cooper Gallery and Brooklyn Rail co-present the 1977 documentary North Star: Mark di Suvero, scored by Philip Glass, on the sculptor's engineering-driven, crane-built steel work. Anita Contini, founder of Creative Time, gives a pre-screening reflection.
Stacy Skolnik shaped the Facebook posts of an itinerant high school friend, Robert Frost, into the poems that make up Robert Frost, winner of the 2025 Lisa Brannan Prize for Emerging Poets. Courtney Bush, Rob Fitterman, Shanzhai Lyric, and Otis Houston Jr. read at the launch.
Michael Stern trained as a mechanical engineer at MIT, where he picked up glassblowing as an undergraduate in 2006 and later worked in the Mediated Matter Group, helping build one of the first molten glass 3D printers. His new UrbanGlass show, Imprinted Time, treats glass as a material that holds onto what it's been through, compressing object and person into the same form. Wednesday's opening pairs Stern with Sydney Cash, the self-taught glass artist whose retrospective runs concurrently in the gallery's Robert Lehman space. I like that UrbanGlass put an engineer-turned-glassblower next to a self-taught one for the same night.
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Sam